Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History
By Alli Hartley-Kong SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 26, 2020
The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917.
THE FOREST IN THE TREES by Connie McLennan
Reviews:
VERDICT An engaging read-aloud, peppered with plenty of facts for the scientists in the crowd.—Jody Kopple, Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA School Library Journal
KATHY NELSON Poems of Life & Nature
The music of words has enthralled Kathy from the beginning. Poetry has been a thread through life as a teacher, a telecommunications engineer and chaplain.
Mary Simon is sworn in as Canada’s first Inuk Governor General
Mary Simon was officially sworn in as Canada’s 30th governor general and is the first Indigenous person to hold the position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnFl0s_CspE
The New Woman Behind the Camera
At The Met Fifth Avenue JULY 2–OCTOBER 3, 2021
Exhibition Overview – Exhibitions are free with Museum admission.
Asheville Art Museum
The Museum invites you to explore our outstanding Collection of American art of the 20th and 21st centuries and to discover the richness of Western North Carolina’s unique artistic history.
United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program –
The National Women’s History Museum couldn’t be more excited to share the first five women selected for the United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program:
Allyson Felix Launches New Athletic Footwear Brand for Women After Nike Told Her to Know Her Place
She’s building an empire!
Allyson Felix launched a new athletic footwear brand for women, proving to Nike executives that she knows exactly where her “place” is, Yahoo! Sports reports.
Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University
In an exclusive interview, Hannah-Jones reveals that she and fellow award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will launch new Center for Democracy and Journalism at Washington, DC HBCU
Only person to win Nobel Prize in two different sciences
A leading figure in the history of sciences, Marie Curie was prohibited from higher education in her native Poland. Many years later, she became the first woman Nobel laureate. She remains the only…
The State Department raises the Progress Pride flag over their headquarters
“The State Department raises the Progress Pride flag over their headquarters” (June 27) By LGBTQ Nation
An Iowa County Chooses to Be Named for a Black Professor, Not a Slaveowner
Johnson County selected Lulu Merle Johnson, a Black educator and historian, as its official eponym, replacing Richard Mentor Johnson, the ninth U.S. vice president.